Hi guys. I am in the process of uploading my data to Amazon drive and I have selected items etc. However. Once uploaded is there a way for Amazon to sync and detect new items? Does it do this? It looks to me that once it’s uploaded that’s its job done.
Thanks
That’s entirely a matter of the tools you use to upload/sync you data.
Rclone copy, for example, skips the files already presented in the cloud, checking them by date and size in its default configuration.
@sh1ny Hi, I have had a look at Rclone and not a fan in the terms of using CMD.
I am just using the basic Amazon Client. Its going to be a pain to select one file manually all the time.
Does anyone know if the the likes of SyncBack can do this?
SyncBackPro (Windows exclusive) can accomplish this. However, there’s another tool, odrive, which is quite useful. It’s cross-platform, user-friendly, and its free plan is sufficient for such a task.
It creates a folder for every single cloud provider you have connected to the service, and fills it with dummy .cloud/.cloudf files, representing real files in the cloud. You can then sync your media folder with a remote destination, and if paths match, odrive will upload only the files that have been changed and the new ones.
Good timing I have just started using this but looks limited to 1 file upload instead of uploading multiple.
I also can’t sync a folder with my NAS.
You can configure the number of concurrent uploads, but again, that is configurable within odrive’s CLI, as far as I concerned. Usually, odrive uploads several files simultaneously, but that may not be the case with fairly large files.
Syncing your cloud with NAS is possible, depending on how you mount mentioned NAS in your OS.
Also, there’s NetDrive, however I can’t tell much about it.
OK, some how i can now sync my network storage…
However, my concern is now if I delete something to free up the storage, Odrive will delete it from amazon unless I unlink and then delete.
@jbac13
That’s not true. Odrive implements some kind of a “trash bin” where all files, deleted locally, end up. Prior to actual deleting them in the cloud, odrive explicitly asks if you want to clear the trash bin, applying the changes to your remote drive.
But there’s a particularly useful feature called ‘Unsync’ that reclaims disk space, deleting already synced files. You can ‘unsync’ any combination of files and folders within your odrive root, including doing so on a schedule. That feature requires a paid (99$/year) premium subscription.
If you’re hesitant to spend such a sum, you can unsync using your favorite command line shell (ta-da!).
Upd.: forgot to add that Amazon Drive itself has a trash bin, too. You can restore an accidentally deleted file anytime using ACD website.
Upd. 2: looks like unsync is unable on a free account, even in a form of CLI. Still, there’s a workaround. You delete a file or a folder as usual, then ‘restore’ it from odrive’s trash bin. You’ll get your .cloud/.cloudf placeholder back, and get rid of the file/folder locally.
